A Case of Foreign Accent Syndrome Resulting in Regional Dialect

Fluctuating accent in foreign accent syndrome: A case study

Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare acquired neurogenic speech disorder characterised by the emergence of an accented speech. The aim of this study is to describe the speech characteristics of LK, a FAS speaker who also shows fatigue and cognitive difficulties. Perceptual as well as acoustic analyses show that LK’s speech characteristics are comparable to those found in the literature, but ...

Psychogenic Foreign Accent Syndrome: A New Case

This paper presents the case of a 33-year-old, right-handed, French-speaking Belgian lady who was involved in a car accident as a pedestrian. Six months after the incident she developed a German/Flemish-like accent. The patient's medical history, the onset of the FAS and the possible psychological causes of the accent change are analyzed. Relevant neuropsychological, neurolinguistic, and psycho...

Change of dialect after stroke: a variant of foreign accent syndrome.

Correspondence Besides the issue of the uniqueness of the dialect change, Kwon and Kim [1] also point out that the patient observed a sustained infarct in the temporoparietal area resulting in a prosodic change and fluent aphasia. FAS occurring after a posteriorly located le-sion is indeed rare but has been reported before. Aside from Roth et al. [8] , we would like to refer to a study by Lippe...

Developmental Foreign Accent Syndrome: Report of a New Case

This paper presents the case of a 17-year-old right-handed Belgian boy with developmental FAS and comorbid developmental apraxia of speech (DAS). Extensive neuropsychological and neurolinguistic investigations demonstrated a normal IQ but impaired planning (visuo-constructional dyspraxia). A Tc-99m-ECD SPECT revealed a significant hypoperfusion in the prefrontal and medial frontal regions, as w...

Hepatic Encephalopathy and Foreign Accent Syndrome: a Case Report